[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] fine generator

[Thomas Berezansky]

The fine generator can't be run via action/trigger. However, unless  
you have hourly or otherwise less than daily fines, you also only need  
to run it once a day. If you do have hourly or otherwise less than  
daily fines then you really only need to run it once per the smallest  
fine period you have.

At checkin fine generation should help catch any stragglers on less  
than daily fine generation, which means that you may only need to run  
it once every few fine periods instead (say, every 3 hours when you  
have hourly fines).

Thomas Berezansky
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium


Quoting Jesse Ephraim <JEphraim at roanoketexas.com>:

> (We are running Evergreen 2.0.9 on Ubuntu 10.04)
>
> We have been having multiple issues with our fine generator.   
> Sometimes it locks up, and sometimes multiple instances try to start  
> (we have it locked down to only one instance).  Right now the  
> OpenSRF crontab is set to run it every 31 minutes.
>
> How much more efficient (or less error-prone) are action triggers?   
> If we set an action trigger to run when an item is checked in, would  
> it pass item-specific variables to fine_generator.pl so it will only  
> run it on that one item?
>
> On a related note, does anyone use any monitoring software to notify  
> you when key processes hang up or stop?
>
> Thanks much!
>
> Jesse Ephraim
>
> Director, Roanoke Public Library
> 308 S. Walnut
> Roanoke, Texas 76262
> (817) 491-2691
> jephraim at roanoketexas.com
>
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